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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 12 begins with what type of feature?
(a) An excerpt from the narrator's newest novel.
(b) A story about the old man.
(c) An arrest warrant.
(d) An excerpt from the narrator's mother's diary.

2. How many Memory Police officers arrive to search the narrator's home in Chapter 17?
(a) 10 or 12.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 5 or 6.
(d) 3 or 4.

3. What is NOT an item sent by the ex-milliner and his wife to the narrator in Chapter 19 to thank her for her hospitality?
(a) A sack of flour.
(b) An umbrella.
(c) A pepper grinder.
(d) A can of sardines.

4. The old man tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 7 that he has lived on the island how much longer than she has?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 2 times.
(c) 4 times.
(d) 5 times.

5. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many officers appear on either side of the narrator in Chapter 13 and hurry her into the elevator before guiding her "through a maze of corridors and into a room at the heart of the building" (103)?

2. Over time, the narrator finds that to keep R at his best, "the morning agenda" needs "to be as" what "as possible" (93)?

3. The unnamed narrator's mother and father had liked to meet at what location during their courtship?

4. In or on what piece of furniture did the unnamed narrator's keep her disappeared objects?

5. The sound of what object interrupts the birthday celebration in progress at the end of Chapter 16?

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